Saving Money with Better Indexes Ronald Bradford, Principal, 42SQLTuesday, March 22nd from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Price: $30. Product development in a startup moves quickly, often with little time to consider database scaling issues. In this class, students will explore how database performance can be easily improved and significant costs cut by creating better indexes. With the correct environment... [read more]

Saving Money with Better Indexes Ronald Bradford, Principal, 42SQLTuesday, March 22nd from 6:00 pm to 7:30 pm. Price: $30. Product development in a startup moves quickly, often with little time to consider database scaling issues. In this class, students will explore how database performance can be easily improved and significant costs cut by creating better indexes. With the correct environment these improvements can occur with minimal downtime and code changes ensuring your website is always available. Specifically, students will learn how one critical performance analysis technique that few individuals know about can be applied to their existing MySQL production environment. This class will cite several examples on how queries were improved by over 500% even with a highly indexed schema.  Prerequisites: A working familiarity with MySQL. Ronald Bradford is a MySQL Expert based in New York where he provides professional consulting for startups to Fortune 500 companies. He is a published author, Oracle ACE Director for MySQL and is the all time top individual contributor of MySQL blog content.